Word: tins
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Themes not called for at this time will be left at the student's risk, in the tin box on the mantle piece in Sever...
Themes not called for at this time will be left at the students' risk, in the tin box on the mantle piece in Sever...
Themes not called for at this time will be left, at the Student's risk, in the tin box on the mantel-piece in Sever...
...twelve o'clock, to build a bon-fire out of two soap boxes and an old hat? Does it signify exuberant joy? Is there any particular pleasure in setting off surreptitious fire-crackers at long intervals during the night, or pelting an instructor's panes with torpedoes? Is a tin horn an unvarying accompaniment to extreme gratification? The truth is that all these puerilities gain their only attraction when under prohibition. There is some exhilaration in being chased from an inceptive conflagration by an officious proctor; but there is nothing so mournful as to split one's lungs in starting...
Class B. Ordinary instruments needed. A thermometer and a tin can for collecting rain. A somewhat more detailed record of rain, wind, temperature, thunder, etc. during the passage of a storm...